Trump Moves Into the Burn-It-Down Phase

What matters, of course, is not what Trump says, or how he says it, but what he does—and what his supporters do at his behest. Trump gave the speech his opponents had been fearing, one that signaled he might use the considerable tools at his disposal—the machinery of government, willing …

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Some Democrats floating Hakeem Jeffries for House Speaker: report

Photo by Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images Some are rallying for House Democratic caucus chairman Hakeem Jeffries of New York to become House Speaker, but he doesn’t even want the job. Read More: New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries quotes Biggie Smalls in speech during Trump’s impeachment trial Two moderate House Democrats who are …

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Face the Bitter Truth

Jonathan Rauch: How American politics went insane But the composition of Trump’s followers, with a large minority of Latino voters and a nontrivial number of Black voters, makes their motivations more various and complicated than the single, somehow reassuring cause that progressives settled on after 2016: racism. There turn out …

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